Bad hair day

The next Monday Lucy woke up as her dormitory's door slammed shut, indicating how Angelina and the rest of the girls had already woken up and left to get their breakfast before the day's classes. Lucy struggled once again to throw her covers off of her. And once she finally managed to wiggle herself out of her cocoon, she was about to get out of her warm bed when her legs got trapped into the covers and she fell out of the bed, but this time she hit her bottom to the floor.

Lucy sat up from the ground and rubbed her sore bottom while throwing her covers that had fallen back to the bed. After a while she finally managed to heave herself off the floor and into the bathroom. She took her hairbrush into her hands and was about to brush her hair when something in the mirror got her eyes.

Red.

Her hair was red.

It wasn't jet black and messy anymore, it was smooth, straight and red.

Lucy placed the brush back to the shelf as she took a deep breath and,

''TWINS!''

She immediately ran to the boys' dormitory to find twins and Lee on the floor where they had fallen from their beds when she had yelled. They looked up to see her standing in the doorway with her red hair falling onto her shoulders, and at first you could see amused looks on their faces, but when they saw Lucy's enraged face they immediately covered away from her, knowing how she could be even meaner that Mrs. Weasley when she was mad.

''Mind explaining,'' Lucy said in a threateningly calm voice as her eyes shot angry looks on the boys.

''Well, we…You tell her Fred,'' George said not having the courage to tell her the truth.

''We…um…Well, Lee had gotten this knew trick candy from Spain and we wanted to try it out, but it only turned one's hair red so we couldn't try it ourselves, so we thought you wouldn't mind,'' Fred explained, his voice getting quieter towards the end.

''I wouldn't have minded if you'd told me about it. Don't you remember how we promised to tell everything and not prank each other?'' Lucy asked.

''We do, but it was such a short notice and…well…yeah, we don't really have a good excuse,'' George finally admitted making Lucy sight in despair.

''How long does it last?'' She finally asked while pulling one strand of her now red hair.

''Only 'till the end of the day. Besides it looks good on you,'' Lee praised hoping to ease the tension around the room. And he wasn't lying. Lucy didn't really look like your typical girly girl when she had her messy hair and was always hanging around the twins and Lee. But now that her hair was straight and smooth she looked like a very pretty girl and even the twins had to admit that she did have a very nice face hidden under that messy hair of hers. And Lucy couldn't help but to notice how much she looked like her mother Lily now that the most conspicuous feature, her messy black hair, had been removed. And what Lucy could remember she knew that her mother had been a very beautiful woman, so she was worried about the attention the red hair might attract this day.

''Okay I forgive you, but remember if this happens again I promise that I will jinx your brooms to be slower that the snails in the Burrow's garden,'' Lucy threatened. The twins shared a horrified looks as Lucy walked back to her dormitory to get ready.

After Lucy had dressed herself she went back to the bathroom to take the dreaded look at this new hair color of hers. She brushed it a couples times immediately noticing how much easier it was to brush now that it was smooth. She looked herself in the mirror and even though the first time she had noticed the hair she had been horrified, but now it didn't bother her that much anymore. But she still did want her old hair back since it was mostly the only feature in her looks that she inherited from her father and she didn't want to lose it no matter how much easier the hair was to control now.

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The breakfast at the Great Hall was an awkward one to say the least. Those who knew Lucy started asking as to why her hair was now red and some guys from different houses suddenly came to her asking if she needed anything, making the twins feel extremely protective and refusing on her behalf.

Ron had come also to ask about her knew hair and after hearing that it was the twins' fault quickly went back to his seat as it was nothing surprising to him. During the breakfast the twins' made a silent agreement to never prank Lucy again. At least no way her appearance would change, as it was attracting a very unwanted attention in their opinion, manly boys.

After their breakfast their mood rapidly changed to dread as they now had double potions in the stone cold dungeons. They went to the class and as always Snape called their names in his bored voice and gave a quick look in their direction to see who had admitted to be presence. And once he got to Lucy, he took a look on her direction and froze when he saw her.

He quickly composed himself and continued his lecture as if nothing had happened and the students just brushed as him being slightly surprised by Lucy's knew hair color.

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He couldn't believe his eyes.

He circled around the room while the students tried to make Girding Potion from scratch and most failing miserably. But during the long class, his eyes strayed many times towards the new red head in his class who was trying to make the potion with her Weasley friends.

The same red hair, just the same length too. The face and those dimples he knew all too well. The smile that could light up the whole room and the eyes that to this day still haunted his dreams.

It was no mistake about the identity of this girl that used to have that wretched messy black hair that now just screamed insult to his injury now that he knew who the young girl was. His dear Lily's perfect face and that Potter's black hair that ruined the perfect picture that now was now whole for once. There was no mistake, this was the first born daughter of Lily and James Potter, who everyone thought to be dead. Until now.

It was already an insult to him that the Potter boy had Lily's beautiful eyes slapped into James Potter's face, but now there was another one who had Lily's beautiful face and eyes, but Potter's hair.

In his mind he was getting angry at the one who he was sure knew about Lucy Potter's existence and did now tell him.

Albus Dumbledore.

Soon the class came to an end and the students left with a sour face as most of them failed to make the potion and now had to make a foot long essay to tell what they did wrong.

And after the students had left Snape took some powder and threw it into his offices fire and then called his destination as he stepped into the fire and was swooped into the Headmaster's office.

He came out of the fire place dusting himself from the soot and looked at the Headmaster who was sitting on his desk doing some paper work.

''Good day Severus. What might bring you here?'' Professor Dumbledore said as he raised his head from his paper work.

''Why didn't you tell me about her?'' Snape asked.

''About who?'' Professor Dumbledore asked as he rose from his desk and started walking towards his Potions Master.

''Lucy Potter,'' Snape said. Professor Dumbledore gave him a quick smile as he sat down to his armchair next to the fire place gesturing Snape to sit the one next to him, but he didn't preferring to stand.

''I see you now that she has that lovely red hair, no doubt curtsey of the young Mr. Fred and George Weasley, noticed her similarities with dear Lily,'' Professor Dumbledore said, his eyes twinkling behind his spectacles.

''She is like a carbon copy of her now that that hideous black hair is not in the way,'' Snape seethed.

''Now now Severus, I for one think that Lucy's black hair makes her unique. She is a perfect balance of Lily and James, just like Harry,'' Professor Dumbledore said as Snape finally sat down to the armchair.

''But why didn't you tell me? Haven't I proven my loyalty to you time after time?'' Snape asked.

''It had nothing to do with your loyalty Severus. I kept Lucy's identity a secret from everybody so that both she and Harry could live normal lives and not have to worry about either of them getting hurt. Lucy already sees Harry as the most important person in her life, but as long as nobody knows who she is nobody has to hurt Harry to get to her. And as long as Harry does not know about Lucy, she will not become his weakness that she most likely would were he to find out about their relationship. There are many forces that would love to hurt Harry for him getting rid of Voldemort and hurting Lucy would prove to be very effective way to do it. Now you see why Harry or anybody for that matter must not know about Lucy until the time is right?'' Professor Dumbledore said as he rose to look out of the window.

Snape did see the reason behind the Headmasters actions but it did not wipe out the feeling that something dear had been stolen from him. His dead lily was dead even he had to admit it but she continued to live in her children and 'till now he had thought that to see Lily he'd have to look her through the Harry's eyes and to see his lifelong enemy's face as he did.

But now he could see her in Lucy, who held much more familiarities with Lily than with James. Yes she'd have her father's hair, but he could ignore it and look her eyes that finally, after eleven years were in the same face he had grown to love.

Yes it was short, sort of a filler chapter where nothing really happened. But I had planned to make a chapter where Snape would find out about Lucy and I didn't want it to be in the later books as more stuff would happen in those.

And I really did mean that I'd like to have some reviews about the story. If I don't get anything back from you I'll lose my interest to write these. So please review, I don't want to sound desperate, but I am.